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CHRYSOBOTHRIS SEXPUNCTATA (Fabricins) 



Buprestis impressa Olivier, EutomoL, vol. 2, gen. 32, 1790, pp. 44-45, pi. 



5, fig. 42 (Name preoccupied) ; Enc. Method, vol. 5, Buprestis, 1790, p. 



226, no. 67.— Hekbst, Nat. Sy.st. Ins. Kafev, vol. 9, 1801, p. 233, pi. 



150, fig. 4. 

 Buprestis scxpunctata Fabhicius, Syst. Eleuth., vol. 2, 1801, p. 206, no. 



111.— ScHONHEKR, Syu. Ids., vol. 1, pt. 3, 1817, p. 255, no. 216. 

 Buprestis splendens Voet, Catal. Coleopt., vol. 1, 1801, p. 96, pi. 51, fig. 20. 

 Colobogaster scxpunctata Castelnau and Goky, Mon. Bupr., vol. 2, 1836, p. 



9, pi. 2, fig. 7. 

 Chrysobothris scxpunctata AVaterhouse, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Coleopt., vol. 



3, pt. 1, 1887, p. 35. 



Male. — Form broadly oblong, and moderately convex, subopaque ; 

 color green, with a strong cupreous or aureous tinge, each elytron 

 ornated with three round green impressed spots, and arranged as 

 follow^s: One at the basal lobe, the second on middle of disk just in 

 front of the middle, and a smaller one at apical third, placed closer 

 to the lateral margin than the suture ; beneath green, tip of abdomen 

 and tarsi cyaneous. 



Head nearly flat, wdth the front long, triangular, and the sides 

 obliquely narrowed to the apex; occiput rather narrow and feebly 

 longitudinally carinate, front with a broad transverse crescent - 

 shaped depression, which is more deeply longitudinally impressed 

 at the middle, causing an arcuate elevation behind and two semi- 

 circular elevations in front, there is also a narrow deep groove ex- 

 tending arcuately around the antennal cavities, and connected to a 

 much deeper transverse groove behind the epistoma ; vertex with an 

 obsolete chevron-shaped groove; surface coarsel}'^ and rather densely 

 punctate, the punctures somew^hat confluent on the front, and ir- 

 regularly placed; intervals finely and densely granulose; eyes very 

 large, strongly convex, about evenly rounded at bottom and top, 

 and separated on the occiput by one-half the distance between the 

 antennal cavities, which are surrounded by a narrow circular de- 

 pression, bordered posteriorly by a sharp arcuate carina; epistoma 

 broadly angularly emarginate at middle, with the lobe on each side 

 strongly angulated at middle; antennae rather long, third joint 

 cylindrical, clavate, and about as long as the following four joints 

 united. Pronotum strongly transverse, one and one-half times as 

 Avide as long at median lobe, widest just in front of middle, apex 

 and base about equal in width; sides obliquely expanded to near 

 middle, where the}^ are emarginate and abruj^tly declivous, then 

 arcuately rounded to the posterior angles, which are acute, the lateral 

 margin sharply defined, extending from base to apical third and 

 not visible from above; anterior margin nearly sti-aight, with an 

 obsolete median lobe ; base very deeply arcuately emarginate on each 

 side at the elvtral lobe, with the median lobe strongly produced 



